When Jacinda refused to take the word of her Māori Minister over that of a trigger free safe space millennial staffer, it was a signal like any other that Māori are never given the benefit of the doubt.
Our courts and prisons are full of Māori who were never given the benefit of the doubt.
So we now see the report has been leaked to the media and it’s a conflict over Meka’s incompetent millennial staffer who claimed she was bruised from the incident after Meka allegedly grabbed her to read her the riot act over her incompetence.
Meka disputes the accusations of assault or even touching the staffer.
In post MeToo where due process is dead and accusation the new evidential threshold, the subjective sensibilities of trigger free safe space millennials trump anything else and the involvement of former Green Party staffers in destroying Meka’s career and reputation should surprise no one.
UPDATE: Jacinda is now starting an inquiry into how the report was leaked, really Prime Minister? You have no idea who leaked this? Who believes passionately enough in the woke call out culture to leak the report from inside the Government to cement the decision into place?
Who is that self righteous?
My personal experience has been that Maoris can be much more physically and emotionally expressive when they are angry about something. I don’t say this to judge them but it makes them easy targets for punishment.
How many maaris have you meet?
Can’t you spell Maori? ( this is part of NZ citizenship to show respect for New Zealand’s first people)
No such word as can’t
How about ‘won’t’?
You must be dark brown.
QED
Were there any witnesses to the staffer’s allegations of violence?
Was a complaint laid with the police ? If not why not?
Is the accused Maori MP being given a trial by the opposition Nactional Party and mainstream media ‘court of credibility’ ?…and not the law?
…is this Labour Maori MP being slandered?
( it is very easy to be covertly racist and sexist …resort to racial and sexist stereotypes)
Imo Jacinda Ardern has mishandled this…and shot her coalition government in the foot
Reminds me of this trial by media and not the law:
‘Court of credibility?’
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/439429-society-law-rules-credibility/
“One of the most important, if not the most important, pillars of Western society is the rule of law and equal application of the law. This is now being placed in doubt. We are told that it is the court of credibility that rules – whatever that means. Is the Kavanaugh nomination a game changer?
CrossTalking with Jason Nichols, Gina Loudon, and Bryan Crabtree.”
So, what you’re saying Martin is that you don’t like this #MeToo movement when it takes out someone that you happen to support politically? Where did you think this was going to end? There is a delicious irony that now the left is discovering that supporting dodgy movements can only come back and bite you on the bum.
You don’t get to claim hypocrisy, when the Labour Party and ‘Social Justive Warriors’ try and force out MP after MP. It is not about, somehow magically never having rotten apples in an organisation. It is dealing with them when you actually find one which no one has been able to find. Social Justice Warriors tryed it on with Willie Jackson and now this. Yet Social Justice Warriors are yet to find there Labour Party patriarchy trophy because it doesn’t exist.
As for Meka I suspect this could have been a show pony trial. She could have taken time off until circumstances provide a reason for her to be reinstated as a minister. It’s only a matter of time before they use the excuses that Meka has done her time so no need for magical thinking.
As I understand it – the assualted person was also Moori. Your objetionis that a Maori worker can undermine a more powerful politiician. Its a class thing.
We’ve got a female prime minster who’s daughter has a Māori name included on her birth certificate. So we’re all people now. There’s no me, there’s no male, no female, no maari, we are all just people now.
@ Sam…and yet you can’t even spell Maori?!
(maybe it isn’t important to you?…after Maori language week isn’t this a bit of an insult to New Zealand’s first people?)
Why don’t you go and spell check for free over at the standard.
@ John DRINNAN re “the assualted person” (based on what evidence?… is this just your supposition?…or bias?…your ‘court of credibility’?… or prejudice?…or stereotyping?….or sexism or racism or ageism?)
…what is your evidence that an assault took place ? ( because the Labour Party does not seem to have anything conclusive)
…if an assault took place , why were not the police notified immediately?
( remember the accusations of sexual assaults at a Labour Party youth camp…eventually they went to the police!…and there were witnesses)
Makes some sense.
As well as Maori stereotypes of violence at play here
…there are ‘ageist stereotypes’ ( the Green Party is not too good on this either)
…ageist particularly as it it applies to older women ( forget about the respect given to Golda Meir and Indira Gandhi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi
Look what the Labour Party did to Annette King !
imo unless there were witnesses and unless the complainant went to the police with an assault charge, this could have been handled much better
…Jacinda refused to take the word of her Māori Minister over that of a trigger free safe space millennial staffer…
Well, good. Your response to an allegation of bullying and harrassment in your workplace shouldn’t be to just take the manager’s word for it that the employee is making it up.
Even more important than that, your response should totally, unequivocally not be to mock the employee and dismiss them as a “trigger free safe space millennial,” because that would be pretty damn low.
The ‘leak’ more likely came from the PM’s staffers in order to distract media from Handley and other issues.
Meka couldn’t be saved and cannot suffer more damage.
So leak a report that was going to be released anyway. Politics 101.
This isnt an episode of house of cards. It’s more like comedy hour where every one is struggling to make it onto on the 6 oclock comedy show. Instead of being proud of Jacindas performance in the UN it’s all me me me me me in B minus.
@ADA…so you are arguing that Meka who “couldnt be saved and cannot suffer more damage”
…is now being used (and re-victimised?) by the “PM’s staffers” via a ‘leak’ for political expediency reasons ?
…viz in your words , to “distract media from “Handley and other issues” (presumably to save the Prime Minister embarrassment)
…that is very very cynical and despicable
You’re wrong on this one Martyn.
…..trust me. You’re wrong.
Meka holds a safe Labour seat. She ain’t going no where. The staffer is one week in the job and is already in need of a transfer. I’d be taking a second look at the staffers CV references because the staffer need tutoring in her job that was never identified are acted on.
I didn’t know that the ability to accommodate a certain threshold of violence was a competency that Ministerial Services looks for in its adverts. Let’s try that out..
Whaitiri: “So, in her past role with you, would you say she is a happy slap-around kind, or would I need to break her teeth before she squeals?”
Referee: “Ummmm…..look, she’s a very capable worker but just like anyone, can make a human mistake. Are you saying that you want someone who will accept physical violence as part of “performance management” working for you..??? Isn’t that kinda….against what Labour stands for???”
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“..When Jacinda refused to take the word of her Māori Minister over that of a trigger free safe space millennial staffer, it was a signal like any other that Māori are never given the benefit of the doubt…”
This is the main thrust that I believe (actually, I know) is wrong.
This person is not a clown as referred to by some here.
This person is not a “trigger free safe space millennial staffer”.
This person is not a “victim”. They are a victim. And, they are not an “alleged” anything.
This person was subjected to a level of violence that would not be tolerated by anyone on this blog – and if we are being honest, shouldn’t be tolerated by ANYONE – if the parties were (for example) John Key bruising Marama Davidson.
What a bunch of cry me a river. It’s mentalities like that why Social Justice Warriors can never be productive members of the work force. The priority is always prepare them for the workforce.
The alternatives is fire the staffer, transfer her, give her hush money, demote or promote the staffer. Any Labour member worth there salt would straight away think how do I get these people back to work for the long term. Ya feel me.
I would be taking a look at the staffer cause she must have done something wrong to get her boss so angry to leave her finger prints. I agree with Sam above I voted for Meka and I will vote for her again despite this incident. In my view she should have handled this matter better but we all make mistakes however I expect her to learn and move on so she can continue to help our East Coast whanau as our people need her to be at the top of her game and I’m sure she will after this.
Meka denies touching the staffer
unless there are witnesses how do we know they were her boss’es finger prints?
…they may have been the staffer’s boyfriend’s fingerprints?
…or self- inflicted at a later date to prove her point
…unless people lay complaints of assault with the police straight away it is very difficult to prove either way
….so imo asking Meka to take the blame and step down is to take sides and mishandle the case
….and what sort of precedence does this set?…if there are no witnesses anyone and everyone is vulnerable to false accusations
Because there was only two people in the room with two different stories.
Hopefully kids todays are learning not to do regrettable things. My generation is going to be dealing with this for years to come.
So don’t be casual in public people. Just don’t. Especially not with your own name attached. Always be professional like you are representing what ever organisation.
I’m not even going to bother tackling wether or not it was “bullying,” because by now everyone should know that it’s also appearances that matter, and not just intent.
So yeah, for someone who “has a safe labour with responsibilities to guide her constituency through time with verve and erudition, staying ahead of every turn on the vast beat that is the internet.” she really should have known better. She’s actually lucky she’s still around.
No, no, every one should know better by now. It’s only bad if Labour do it.
BUT, Meka seemed to know, according to the leaked report, what a media clown expert had to do for a job, as she failed to put her into the picture with the PM at her electorate. Why did she need a media clown advisor in the first place, I ask, when she realised herself what was best to do?
We taxpayers pay media advisor clowns and other clowns to all sorts of government and opposition politician idiots, I am sick of it, let them do their own jobs, and stop this bs rorting, thanks.
I hate to say it but shouldn’t have PM Jacinda Ardern made sure the local Maori MP was included in the picture?
….to give a sense that this is a coalition partnership government with the help of Maori seats
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